HISTORY

In 1992 Manes Vizel founded City Glatt with his son Tzali and son-in-law Levi Safran. What started as a small retail kosher butcher shop in Los Angeles soon grew into three stores. In addition to serving their retail clientele, City Glatt began developing a wholesale distribution venture. By 1999, City Glatt became exclusively wholesale and the company re-located to a state-of-the-art 30,000 square foot facility. This enabled them to realize their dream of making fine quality kosher products more accessible to the West Coast population. The company works diligently to seek out only the finest domestic and imported products - setting a "gold standard" in quality and service.

In the spring of 2000, City Glatt, Inc. created the Tzali’s Food group. Through a network of wholesale distributors and brokers, the company expanded the Tzali’s "private-label" distribution both nationally and internationally in both the mainstream, ethnic and kosher markets. In July 2004 a full line of Tzali’s brand frozen appetizers was launched with much success. Since then, the Tzali’s brand has continued to expand and now includes a full line of canned items and other specialty products.

OPERATIONS

The company headquarters is located in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The 30,000 square foot warehouse, with seven loading docks, accommodates refrigerated, frozen and dry products. Each division of the warehouse is automatically temperature-controlled with state-of-the art equipment. The fleets of trucks are all refrigerated, with one exclusively for ice-cream.

Tzali’s Foods (City Glatt, Inc.) service all areas of Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego, Las Vegas, Arizona, San Francisco, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii.  Deliveries are offered to the Los Angeles city areas and the San Fernando Valley areas twice daily. Emergency deliveries – (after hours, etc.) are also available upon request.

In addition to servicing kosher markets and restaurants, the company also services large chain-store supermarkets, ethnic stores, day schools, synagogues, convalescent hospitals, adult day cares, and retirement villages.